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Following   /fˈɑloʊɪŋ/   Listen
Following

adjective
1.
About to be mentioned or specified.  Synonym: undermentioned.
2.
Immediately following in time or order.  Synonym: next.  "Next in line" , "The next president" , "The next item on the list"
3.
Going or proceeding or coming after in the same direction.  "Tried to outrun the following footsteps"
4.
In the desired direction.
noun
1.
A group of followers or enthusiasts.  Synonym: followers.
2.
The act of pursuing in an effort to overtake or capture.  Synonyms: chase, pursual, pursuit.


Follow

verb
(past & past part. followed; pres. part. following)
1.
To travel behind, go after, come after.  "Please follow the guide through the museum"
2.
Be later in time.  Synonym: postdate.
3.
Come as a logical consequence; follow logically.  Synonym: fall out.  "The theorem falls out nicely"
4.
Travel along a certain course.  Synonym: travel along.  "Follow the trail"
5.
Act in accordance with someone's rules, commands, or wishes.  Synonyms: abide by, comply.  "You must comply or else!" , "Follow these simple rules" , "Abide by the rules"
6.
Come after in time, as a result.  Synonym: come after.
7.
Behave in accordance or in agreement with.  Synonym: conform to.  "Follow my example"
8.
Be next.
9.
Choose and follow; as of theories, ideas, policies, strategies or plans.  Synonyms: adopt, espouse.  "The candidate espouses Republican ideals"
10.
To bring something about at a later time than.  "He followed his lecture with a question and answer period"
11.
Imitate in behavior; take as a model.  Synonym: take after.
12.
Follow, discover, or ascertain the course of development of something.  Synonym: trace.  "Trace the student's progress"
13.
Follow with the eyes or the mind.  Synonyms: keep an eye on, observe, watch, watch over.  "The world is watching Sarajevo" , "She followed the men with the binoculars"
14.
Be the successor (of).  Synonyms: come after, succeed.  "Will Charles succeed to the throne?"
15.
Perform an accompaniment to.  Synonyms: accompany, play along.
16.
Keep informed.  Synonyms: keep abreast, keep up.
17.
To be the product or result.  Synonym: come.  "Understanding comes from experience"
18.
Accept and follow the leadership or command or guidance of.  "She followed a guru for years"
19.
Adhere to or practice.
20.
Work in a specific place, with a specific subject, or in a specific function.  Synonym: be.  "She is our resident philosopher"
21.
Keep under surveillance.  Synonyms: surveil, survey.
22.
Follow in or as if in pursuit.  Synonym: pursue.  "Her bad deed followed her and haunted her dreams all her life"
23.
Grasp the meaning.  "When he lectures, I cannot follow"
24.
Keep to.  Synonyms: stick to, stick with.  "Stick to the diet"



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"Following" Quotes from Famous Books



... be drowned and turned his head to see. But there were the two somber figures still following him, though their black sacks were ...
— The Adventures of Pinocchio • C. Collodi--Pseudonym of Carlo Lorenzini
... compelled to fight his own way upward under all the grinding aspects of poverty. Owing to an energetic and indomitable temperament, he had through years of law practice and public labors of various kinds built up for himself a following among Chicago Swedes which amounted to adoration. He had been city tax-collector, city surveyor, district attorney, and for six or eight years a state circuit judge. In all these capacities he had manifested a tendency to do the right as he saw it and play fair—qualities ...
— The Titan • Theodore Dreiser
... by stating certain imports to be of one nature when they were something entirely different. For instance a great deal of starch had been imported under the denomination of flour from Ireland. The Revenue officers were therefore instructed to discriminate between the two articles by the following means. Starch "when in flour" and real flour could be differentiated by putting some of each into a tumbler of water. If the "flour" were starch it would sink to the bottom and form a hard substance, if it were real flour ...
— King's Cutters and Smugglers 1700-1855 • E. Keble Chatterton
... of forty years, and if you will supply those details which I have omitted, your own varied experience as a thoughtful, talented, and earnest piano-teacher will enable you to understand my theory, from the following dialogue between my humble self under the title of Dominie, my friend, and the ...
— Piano and Song - How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of - Musical Performances • Friedrich Wieck
... NOTE.—The following questions are set as an indication of the sort of knowledge a student should possess who has carefully read the several papers of this course. The paper covers only about the first half of the course. The student is recommended to write out the answers carefully. Only such answers need ...
— Up To Date Business - Home Study Circle Library Series (Volume II.) • Various


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